|
pubmed:abstractText |
The relationship between isolation and language spoken is explored using the example of the spread of Castilian Spanish in the Catalonia region of Spain. "With the help of Geographical Information Systems and characteristics of the road and railway networks, centrality scores for urban municipalities and municipalities near the city of Barcelona have been calculated. The analysis of language characteristics does not show any significant relationship of accessibility on the one hand and the distribution of language characteristics on the other. Instead, Catalonia's linguistic geography is strongly linked with massive in-migration of Castilian-speaking minorities."
|
